Preakness Qualifications
1/ST PREAKNESS AT HOME – A FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND LIVESTREAM EVENT TO CELEBRATE THE PREAKNESS STAKES
1/ST Preakness At Home To Include A Safe Drive-InFieldFest Exclusively Benefitting First Responders
1/ST Preakness At Home To Include A Safe Drive-InFieldFest Exclusively Benefitting First Responders. The spirit of the legendary Preakness Stakes will be celebrated in unique fashion this year with the 1/ST Preakness At Home livestream event featuring a look back at the fun, festivities and world-class Thoroughbred racing of Preakness past. The Preakness Stakes, moved to Oct. 3, is now the final leg of the Triple Crown. Two other key 3-year-old events, the Travers Stakes and the Haskell Invitational, also were added to the prep.
Belmont Stakes Qualifications
The spirit of the legendary Preakness Stakes will be celebrated in unique fashion this year with the 1/ST Preakness At Home livestream event featuring a look back at the fun, festivities and world-class Thoroughbred racing of Preakness past. The one-hour show, hosted by NBC Sports’ Laffit Pincay III and XBTV’s Zoe Cadman, will air on Saturday, May 16th at 6 p.m. ET on Facebook.com/Preakness. The livestream event will feature appearances by some of racing’s biggest stars including, Hall of Fame trainer and seven-time Preakness winner Bob Baffert and Triple Crown winning jockey Mike Smith along with special messages from Maryland’s own baseball royalty, Cal Ripken Jr. and Jim Palmer. The livestream will include behind the scenes footage, never before seen content and a mashup of some of the best musical performances from previous InfieldFest concerts along with a special performance by the Naval Academy Glee Club.
The 1/ST Preakness At Home will follow NBC’s nationally televised broadcast, The Middle Jewel: American Pharoah’s Run to the Triple Crown, airing on May 16th at 5 p.m. ET. NBC Sports’ Mike Tirico will open the show and will host a segment in which Belinda Stronach, 1/ST Chairman and President and Maryland Governor Larry Hogan will announce the new date for Preakness 145 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. The Preakness Stakes, typically held on the third Saturday in May, was postponed in March due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The 1/ST Preakness At Home will also feature a Drive-InFieldFest, the nation’s first full-scale safe drive-in concert featuring a live DJ set by D-Nice exclusively benefitting first responders that will take place at 1/ST Racing’s Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida, produced by 1/ST Live.
Respecting all social distancing requirements, D-Nice’s set will transmit live via guests’ car radios and will also stream live on YouTube via www.1stlivepresents.com.
Preakness Stakes Qualifications
Tune in Saturday, May 16th at 6pm ET to the Preakness Stakes Facebook Live following American Pharoah’s epic Triple Crown journey on NBC Sports to watch the 1/ST PREAKNESS AT HOME! Join us as we take you behind the scenes with exclusive access and interviews, relive our favorite moments, and celebrate everything that makes the Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown second to none.
Kelly Danner: kelly.danner@kyderby.com
- Nominations for the 2021 Triple Crown will open January 11, 2021.
- First Closing Date: Saturday, January 23, 2021. Nomination fee $600.00.
- Second Closing Date: Monday, March 29, 2021. Nomination fee $6,000.00.
Either fill out and submit the online nomination form on this website or download, fill out and mail in this PDF Nomination Form.
Kelly Danner
Louisville, KY
kelly.danner@kyderby.com
(502) 638-3825
Jillian Sofarelli(800) 638-1859jtullock@marylandracing.com